Margot POV
I bought a new phone and restored what I could from the cloud. The backup wasn’t complete. I didn’t have an opportunity to figure out which work files were missing.
There were already too many messages waiting for me.
My official leave of absence lasted seven days.
Today was day eight.
Professor Cole had returned from South Africa, so I emailed him and Nora and requested medical leave.
Ellen had been messaging me too.
She wasn’t worried about my disappearance because she knew I’d gone into heat.
And Simone had obviously been the one to tell her. That alone made me suspicious. There was something else.
I normally give Simone a limited weekly allowance.
This week, she hadn’t contacted me once. Not even once.
That proved nothing by itself. But combined with the phone?
